Horse on the World

Chapter 531

After the battle lasted for more than an hour, the Marine Corps broke through the breakwater on the Liaozhou coastline, and the Dingzhou army climbed up the breakwater. In front of them was a plain several miles wide, with criss-cross trenches covering the entire plain. Behind the wall, the soldiers were busy running, and the officers gave various orders hoarsely. At this point, everyone understood that this time the Dingzhou Navy seemed to be playing for real. For several months, although the Dingzhou Navy They often come to attack, but this is the first time that such a large-scale forced landing operation regardless of casualties.

Although the Dingzhou Army is still several miles away from Liaozhou City, standing on the Liaozhou City Wall, it can be clearly seen that the Dingzhou Army is wading and boarding from the transport fleet on the sea in batches. On the land, a large number of siege equipment was also carried ashore. From here, it can be seen that Dingzhou's weapon industry has far surpassed that of other places in Dachu. Huge siege equipment has formed a standard equipment in Dingzhou. The size and split parts allow them to be transported ashore in pieces and reassembled in a very short period of time. Like Zeng, although he also obtained some such weapons from Dingzhou, the number is limited, and now But one damage is one less.

Zeng Qingfeng stood at the top of the wall with a dull expression on his face. He didn't know if he was regretting or thinking about something else.Choosing to turn against Li Qing can indeed temporarily solve his fate of being annexed by Li Qing, but Li Qing's dying blow wiped out his most elite troops. Right now, there are only a very small number of elites defending Liaozhou City. Some of them are local garrison troops that have been transferred. In front of Dingzhou's elite marines, they can be opponents there.Zeng Qingfeng has fully experienced the navy's land combat force. He defeated several troops along the way in three days and three hundred miles, and forced Lu Weixiong to be blocked in Linzhao. His goal has become himself, will his fate be better than that of Lu Weixiong?

Judging from the intensity of the opponent's attack, do they really want to capture Liaozhou City?Zeng Qingfeng was a little puzzled. The Dingzhou navy is indeed powerful, but his land force is not large. According to Zeng Qingfeng's knowledge, they only have a land force of more than [-] people. Moreover, the last long-distance raid was hard against Lu Weixiong's loss. It’s not small, even if the troops are filled and expanded to a certain extent, there can’t be too many soldiers. Although the soldiers in Liaozhou City are far behind the opponent in terms of combat effectiveness, fortunately there are tall walls to rely on. For the city wall, the combat power of the two sides should be barely equal, but why did the other party attack so abnormally?According to the standard of Deng Peng, the opponent's general, he shouldn't do such an unreasonable thing!

If things go wrong, you will be a demon!Zeng Qingfeng thought, but he couldn't remember what the problem was.

"Marshal, the other party's behavior is very abnormal?" Xue Youqing, a staff member beside him, showed a puzzled expression.

"Youqing, did you see that too?" Zeng Qingfeng turned his head, "What is Deng Peng trying to do?"

Xue Youqing tugged at his own strands of beard, thinking hard, and suddenly his eyes lit up, "Marshal, is Li Qing already dead? Deng Peng is crazy and alone, trying to take down Liaozhou City. Li Qing revenge?"

Zeng Qingfeng's eyes lit up, but then dimmed again, "We have been fighting at Baimadu for so long, but there has been no news of Li Qing being captured. Deng Peng has no reason to know about this before us."

Xue Youqing was right when he thought about it, "Then what is the purpose of the opponent's massive attack this time? It seems that they will not let it go this time? Commander, you see that the opponent even sent that kind of giant ship over this time. , it is obviously a fight to the death!"

"Anyway, let's defend Liaozhou City first. As long as we defend Liaozhou City, there is nothing we can do about it. It is impossible for their navy to stay on the sea forever!" Zeng Qingfeng said: "However, what you just said reminds us Me, let's use this news to boost our morale. Well, let the soldiers shout in unison, saying that we have captured and killed Li Qing. By the way, you go find a head and hang it on the flagpole. Even if the opponent is far away, it is impossible for the opponent to see clearly, and it is good to disturb the opponent's military spirit!"

"Beautiful plan!" Xue Youqing immediately flattered her.Zeng Qingfeng smiled wryly, feeling the ups and downs in his heart, all kinds of feelings, but only he knew.

Zheng Zhiqiang sat cross-legged in the mud, muddy and bloody on his body, like a mud monkey, while throwing away the sharpened knife in his hand, he took a polished new knife from the guard, While looking at the city wall in the distance, "Son of a bitch, the turtle's shell is tall and thick enough!"

A Zhenwu school lieutenant beside him smiled and said: "General Zheng, anyway, this time we didn't think about knocking down Liaozhou City, just sweep his periphery and scare them. knock."

Zheng Zhiqiang also laughed, "Yes, when the Tuojiang River thaws tomorrow, we only need to break through his water village, and then we can go straight to the hinterland of Liaozhou along the Tuojiang River. At that time, we can fight wherever we want and land there. Where to go ashore, I want to see, what about the turtle shell?"

The two were talking happily, when there was a burst of huge cheers from Liaozhou City, Zheng Zhiqiang jumped up all of a sudden, put his hands on the awning, and looked towards Liaozhou City, "Son of a son of a bitch, the old men are all here!" They are still in the mood to cheer? What's the point? Could it be that they all lost their minds and went crazy?"

"Li Qing is dead, Li Qing is dead, Dingzhou speed down, Dingzhou speed down!" Huge cheers came from the city, and the cheers spread to the positions outside the city, where the Liaozhou soldiers were also ecstatic, Followed by loud cheers.

Zheng Zhiqiang's heart skipped a beat. He knew that the commander-in-chief was indeed in Liaozhou now. Could it be that the matter was not confidential, the whereabouts of the commander-in-chief was detected by the other party, did the commander-in-chief really encounter misfortune?
On Liaozhou City, a flagpole was erected high, and a bloody and bloody human head could be vaguely seen hanging on it.

Captain Zhenwu, who was still in high spirits just now, turned pale, and looked at Zheng Zhiqiang with fear in his eyes.

"General Zheng!" The captain pointed his finger at the city.

Zheng Zhiqiang's heart was beating wildly. He glanced at the pale face of the captain, and then at the faces of the soldiers around him. They all showed panic and looked bewildered. He was startled, raised his face, and laughed wildly: "Little Zeng, this little trick can only fool a three-year-old child, how can it fool us, where is the commander-in-chief, the commander-in-chief is at Baimadu at the moment, and there are tens of thousands of elites around the commander-in-chief, hehe, even the commander-in-chief The accident happened, it was also at Baimadu, how could you appear here? My sons and daughters, are you three years old?" Zheng Zhiqiang asked sharply.

"no!"

"Son of a son of a bitch!"

"It's really a joke!"

The soldiers all shouted loudly.

"Bastard Zeng Qingfeng, dare to curse our commander in chief, what shall we do?" Zheng Zhiqiang raised his arms and shouted.

"Fuck the son of a bitch!" The soldiers jumped up.

"Kill!" Zheng Zhiqiang brandished the steel knife, screamed wildly, and rushed out at the head. Regardless of the truth, Zheng Zhiqiang was unwilling to allow the soldiers to think about this matter at this time. Make soldiers forget about the subject.

The moment he was about to charge, Zheng Zhiqiang looked at the giant ship in the sea, what was going on?
The cheers from the city of Liaozhou spread far away, and Deng Peng on the flagship also stood up abruptly, looking upstream, where Zheng Zhiqiang had been leading a small fleet for half an hour, but Still no news came back, and the same thoughts as Zheng Zhiqiang floated in his heart, what if something happened to the commander-in-chief?Deng Peng forced himself to overthrow this idea, which is impossible, yes, definitely impossible, this must be a clumsy plan conceived by the other party, in order to disturb our army's morale.

"Decree, step up the attack!" Deng Peng sullenly said, "For all three thousand and five thousand battleships, one hundred sailors will be dispatched from each ship to form a landing force to land and fight!"

Shiliang is a small port dozens of miles away from Liaozhou City. It was originally used by the nearby fishing villages to go fishing. It's not important, but Zeng Qingfeng still stationed a 500-man troop here and built some simple fortresses in consideration of the strong infiltration capabilities of the Dingzhou Marine Corps. If the Marine Corps landed from here, they only needed to While resisting, it is enough to send a message to inform Liaozhou City. The role of sentinels is far better than the role of resisting on the spot here.So the soldiers here are very leisurely. Most of the Dingzhou navy are large ships. How could they come to this remote place?Unless it's hell.

But today they really went to hell. When the first Dingzhou ship bypassed a mountain peak far into the sea and appeared in the sentinel's field of vision, he almost thought that there was something wrong with his eyes.

But then the second, and then the third.

"Enemy, enemy, the Dingzhou Army is here!" the sentinel shouted hoarsely.

"Master sentinel, where did master sentinel go?" The soldiers at the port panicked and shouted loudly to the officer while running to the shooting position.

"The whistle chief has gone to the fishing village, to the Widow Wang's house!" A little leader turned pale, "Come and find the whistle chief and come back, you, you, all of you, light up the wolf smoke!"

Several soldiers who had been named ran up to the Bee Fire Terrace in a hurry, but they found in despair that there was no firewood and dung on this platform that was ready to be used to ignite the wolf smoke.

"Chop some pines and cypresses and set them on fire!" the little boss roared.

In the panic, the first Dingzhou navy ship had arrived at the port, and with a creaking sound, a stone bomb flew out of the ship and landed on the pier.

This stone bomb was not very threatening. It hit the open space with a loud bang, bounced up and down a few times, and rolled aside, but he made the Zeng soldiers in the port look at each other for a while. , shouted suddenly, and fled in all directions. No matter how hoarse the little bosses shouted, no one listened to him. These soldiers were originally some rural soldiers. Insufficient Zeng recruited them to defend some unimportant places with little strategic value. What combat effectiveness is there?

The Dingzhou soldiers hadn't landed yet, but the soldiers dispersed with a blast.

Zheng Zhiyuan landed easily, looking at the empty small fishing port, he couldn't help feeling dazed. "Come on, stay alert, General Li, where is the commander?"

Li Qing was indeed in Shiliang at this time, and he was also staying at Widow Wang's house. In front of him, there was the Zeng's whistle chief who was stationed at the port kneeling. From his mouth, Li Qing generally knew something about Liaozhou. The current situation of the city.

"Commander, our boat is here!" A bodyguard walked over excitedly, as long as he got on the boat, the safety of the commander would be completely guaranteed.

Li Qing nodded, stood up and walked out of the room, and Li Wu followed immediately, making a few secret gestures with his hands turned behind his back, and the other guards in the room nodded knowingly.

Just as Li Qing walked out of the room, there were already several dull screams from the room. There was the whistle chief and the widow. Their footsteps paused slightly, and Li Qing immediately left the small fishing village at a high speed.

There were only a dozen families in the small fishing village, and as Li Qing left, the screams immediately rose and fell.Li Qing's whereabouts must not be revealed at this time, and Li Wu, who was pulled behind, gave the order to slaughter the village without hesitation.

Li Qing walked faster and faster, and the screams behind him made him feel unbearable. He knew that if he turned around, he might order Li Wu to stop the massacre, but now he is no longer willing. No more risking the slightest thing.

"I've seen the handsome man!"

At Shiliang Port, when he saw Li Qing and his party appearing in front of him, Zheng Zhiyuan couldn't help but shed tears, took a step forward, and knelt down at Li Qing's feet, "Marshal, I've seen you!"

Li Qing smiled and helped him up, "Everything will be fine, one day we will set foot on this land again, let's go, let's go back!"

The moment he stepped on the deck, Li Qing turned his head and stared at the land of Liaozhou that he had just left, "When I step here again, I will be the master of this place!" Li Qing said silently in his heart.

Seeing Zheng Zhiyuan's fleet approaching from a distance, with a red silk fluttering high above the raised sails, Deng Peng jumped up: "Successful!" He laughed out loud.

At this time, Zheng Zhiqiang had sent troops to push back Zeng's defense line by a distance of one or two miles, but as the troops gradually deepened, the closer they were to Liaozhou City, the greater the pressure. The trebuchets were able to suppress him. Looking at the stone bullets flying in the air, Zheng Zhiqiang spat, "Shameless things, these trebuchets are given to them by us, ungrateful things, one day I will Enter Liaozhou City, tie a group of you Zeng family bastards to the trebuchet, and throw them into the sea to feed the fish!"

Above the surface of the sea, there was suddenly the sound of rumbling war drums. It was not the beat of the drums urging the attack, but the sound of hundreds of drums beating at the same time turned out to be the song General Order.When Zheng Zhiqiang heard this general order, he couldn't help laughing up to the sky, "Come here, notify the ministries, cover each other, and retreat in an orderly manner. Let's go, go back!"

(End of this chapter)